Entries by Kate Martin

One week after the terrible bombings in Boston, we are in a very different place than we were the week after the attacks on September 11. In that first week after 9/11, the Justice Department had already started its round-up of what would be a thousand men by the end...

As reported here yesterday, there is an extraordinary claim being widely circulated: that the defense bill recently signed by the president authorizes the detention without charge of Americans and other terrorist suspects found in the United States. That is simply untrue. While some senators hoped the bill would...

A small but significant step for civil liberties occurred yesterday. It will help preserve the role of local and state law enforcement as police departments that protect communities -- rather than as intelligence arms of the federal government. Foreign intelligence activities, almost by nature, require classification of information, but the...